Chapter 42: New Mandates
"Grant, is your work going well lately? Grant?"
At the dinner table, Infinita glanced at Donald, who was in a daze with bread in his mouth.
"Huh? alright...... It went pretty well. β
Awakened from his state of thought, Donald realizes that there is still a person sitting next to him.
What he encountered during his meditation last night was too shocking for him, his spiritual world was eroded by demons, and this situation was too dangerous, and he couldn't help but care.
Fortunately, judging from the speed of invasion of the black territory, he still had a certain buffer time, so that he would not find out that the demon existed in the spirit world last night, and he would be completely transformed tonight.
"Grant, there are some things you don't have to hide from me, there should be trust between us, and that's good for you. β
Donald Grant's change prompted Infinita to make the same change, he is no longer an ordinary person, boundaries have been broken, and some topics are no longer taboo.
"Of course, I believe you, the work is really going well, but I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm a little out of shape, it's almost time, I have to go to the office. β
I don't even know who you are, how can I trust you......
As the others left, Infinita returned to the living room, and there was a slight rustle on the gramophone, which was a signal to request communication, and the mechanism was turned on.
"Surveillance will not resume during this time, and it will only be until we are de-alerted that certain organizations or individuals will begin to try to use Donald Grant...... We have wasted too much time and energy on him, but we have not seen enough to make up for it, the city of Peston is not a public parish, the Church of Justice has sent people to negotiate many times, and the final notice has been issued, and in three months, we must withdraw from Preston, or face expulsion from the Inquisitors in addition to the injustices...... Rather than turning him into a wasted chess piece that consumes a lot of energy and does nothing in our hands, let's throw it out and let the others fight for it, use Donald Grant as bait, and let the rats in the shadows help us find out the secret, at least before we leave!"
With the rustling sound, a new notice was issued, and the attempts in the past six months have achieved a lot of results, and it also proves that they have too little information, this belongs to the Church of Justice, and forcibly keeping Donald Grant is just a waste of time, but it allows him to play freely to get good results.
This time it's no longer an attempt, they're going to follow through.
"Donald Grant is innocent, and according to the teachings, we ...... I applied for a review to confirm his status. β
The new order made Infinita frown, and after a long observation, she knew that the target was likely to be ignorant of what had happened, and there was no reason for him to take on everything for the older generation.
"Regular review is imperative, innocent?Where did you get such a naΓ―ve opinion, his parents are both demonic dependents, as you reported two days ago, his talents have begun to be revealed, you should know very well that some talents are hereditary, past experience has proved that evil, must be strangled in the cradle, Donald Grant's end is already predestined, this should be remembered. β
Smack, the communication ends!
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"Gentlemen, what are you going to do?"
Against the dim clouds, Donald arrived at the Swift office, where three men wearing blue-gray strap-on camisole and plaid shirts were at the door of the office.
He doesn't look like a person who lives in the city, but more like a farmer in a farm area outside the city.
"Are you from the firm? We ......"
"Hey, Goren, pay attention to what you say, the boss has explained. β
The meaning expressed in the dialogue between the two should be that there is a commission, not a door-to-door debt collection, so that there is no need to hide their identities.
"I'm Sherlock Swift's assistant, Donald Grant, it's 7:50 a.m., and the office will open shortly, can I hear a few of them first? β
Donald didn't have the key to Swift's office, he had to wait for Sherlock to open the door, the latter usually got up early, and would casually put a pot of flowers on the window sill on the right, signaling Donald to push the door directly in, and he was probably still in bed today.
Seeing that the gentlemen had some messy hair and tired looks, they must have been waiting outside for a while, and Donald simply led them to sit on a bench on the side of the street, while he stood beside him.
"Our boss, Zil Bartlet, sent us into town to get a private detective to investigate some recent oddities on the farm......"
These three people are indeed farm workers, Donald's guess is not wrong, they came to the city this morning, riding in a farm donkey cart, and it is no wonder that they are so tired after a bumpy journey for more than two hours.
As for the incident they want to entrust to investigate, it is the recent disappearance of some lambs and calves on the farm, which could have been reported to the police, after all, it is enough to cause major property damage, and they did so, but because of the area, this kind of missing cattle and sheep must be handled by the police station in the local village outside the city.
For example, in this kind of rural police station, there are actually no more than 30 police officers in it, but the area they have jurisdiction over is not small, for a few missing cattle and sheep, it is impossible to go out in a big way, open a farm, who has not lost cattle and sheep when grazing?
It is also common to be taken away by wolves or leopards in the mountains.
At first, everyone thought it was just a case of ordinary disappearances, until two nights ago, someone was attacked near the farm.
"There's a human dead?"
Donald interrupts Godot's narration that if there is a deceased, the nature of the case will change.
"No, it's just an injury, and someone on the farm ran into a monster while keeping a vigil...... He said it was a monster, in fact, we hadn't seen it, but he was really injured, there were two more holes in his arm, and the boss hated that the police in the town were too slow, and that if things dragged on, it would make our farm's reputation stink, so he hired a private detective, hoping that you could speed things up. β
There were no dead, only wounded, and as for the monster's claim, Donald was interested, but it was useless for him to be interested, and he had to get Sherlock, who was standing outside the threshold, to agree.
"Lanffindor Farm...... Are you sure?"
Entering the door to briefly explain the situation, as soon as he said the name of the farm, Sherlock next to him was surprised.
"Is there a problem with the name of the farm...... It's Lanffindor, right?"
When he asked this, Donald was a little unconfident, and he turned his head and asked again.
"Yes, Lambfindor, that's the name. β
"That Ranffindor?"
"Yes! That's the Ranffindor!"
The Q&A between the farmworker and Sherlock left Donald at a loss, what happened to Ranffindor?
That Ranffindor, which one?
"Don't you know? I told you about the roof crushing case before, I can understand it by looking through it, you three, talk to me, I am a detective. β
If remembered correctly, the place where the roof shredding took place was also the farm, and Donald took this one out of the collated papers and pulled out one of the newspapers.
Sure enough, the name of the farm is mentioned in the first paragraph of the opening paragraph: Ranffindor Farm.
It's no wonder that Sherlock is so surprised that one of the parties in a case he often sees comes to the door to entrust a case, and this coincidence does make people feel absurd.
Well, it also means that he should agree this time.
Donald now has a part of his temperament for his boss, Sherlock has a great love for the paranormal, which is not limited to reading books or cases like this, but wants to really participate in it.
He didn't know the exact reason, but at least one thing should be certain, in the absence of other options, this time the farm should be a must-go.
"Donald, we're going to Ranffindor Farm!"
Sherlock was a little anxious to see where the supernatural case had taken place.